Arsenal and Chile forward Alexis Sanchez is a demon on the piano, it seems. In an Instagram posting by Arsenal team-mate Lukas Podolski, the 26-year-old is seen giving an impressive rendition of Richard Marx's 1989 hit Right Here Waiting.

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A host of footballers, coaches, managers and officials have joined forces for a poetic tribute to the 1914 Christmas Truce. Manchester City skipper Vincent Kompany, Gary Neville and Sir Trevor Brooking are just some of the names who recited lines for a video that will appear on Christmas Day - commemorating 100 years since soldiers on both sides of No Man's Land are said to have taken a festive respite from the horrors of the First World War by playing football.(FootballRemembers.com)

And Barcelona striker Luis Suarez has got into the Christmas spirit by sending 500 parcels to a children's cancer charity back in Uruguay. (Telegraph)